ROFFMAN REACTS

The cameras were set to roll on The Mask by March of 1961. Julian Roffman, having rejected Len Lye’s storyboards, now was forced to take full ownership of the mask's dream world. Lye’s storyboards are dated January 1961, meaning Roffman had less than three months to storyboard and prepare these 3-D dream sequences.

Turning to a psychiatrist recommended to him by the National Institute of Health in Canada for help, Roffman was able to devise the dream sequence scenarios.
He then enlisted associate art director Hugo Wuetrich to draft the storyboards, under his watchful eye of course.

Key personal --Herman Townsley (effects artist), James Gordon(post visual effects)and Herb Albert (cameraman)-- also contributed to the design of the 3-D sequences at this point.

What follows are a few of these storyboards comparing them to frames from the film.